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Scottish-born writer whose stories satirize the Edwardian social scene, often in a macabre and cruel fashion. Munro's columns and short stories were published under the pen name 'Saki'. Saki's stories were full of witty epithets - such as "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went." - and included coded references to homosexuality. After the outbreak of World War I, although officially over age, Munro volunteered in the army as an ordinary soldier. A snipers bullet killed him on November 14, 1916 in France, near Beaumont-Hamel. Munro was sheltering in a shell crater and his last words, according to several sources, were: "Put that damned cigarette out!" After his death his sister Ethel destroyed most of his papers and wrote her own account of their childhood.
I.M. Pei
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